While Taylor didn't employ three distorted electric guitars, plus bass, drums and organ on his original studio version, The Pumpkins' didn't depart much from the song's original tempo while accentuating its guitar melody with their array of fuzzed out axes.

In his biography, Taylor explained that he wrote "Fire and Rain" in 1969 after the suicide of his friend Suzanne Schnerr, whom he'd met while playing with a band called The Flying Machines two years earlier.

Check out The Smashing Pumpkins' version of the song at the top of this page.